In July 2019 Lake Baikal Foundation with the experts\nfrom the Institute for Ecology and Evolution of RAS, the Baikal department of\nVNIRO and FSBI \u00abZapovednoye Podlemorye\u00bb will conduct a comprehensive research\non the Baikal seal aimed at studying and supporting welfare of the unique\nanimal. The scientific expedition was initiated and organized by Lake Baikal\nFoundation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
During the scientific expedition for the first time\nthey will conduct satellite tagging of the Baikal seal with the radio beacons\nArgos to track the migration routes and watch the seals\u2019 behavior in current\nenvironmental conditions of lake Baikal. Beside that the experts will collect biological samples which will help to make\nconclusions about the most part of the Baikal seal\u2019s population. Only humane\nand minimally invasive methods will be applied during the study.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Earlier this year the participants of the joint\nexpedition conducted all necessary field work, obtained preliminary data about\nthe seals\u2019 concentration sites during the moult and defined priority sites of\nsatellite tagging. In the lead-up to the expedition the experts from the IEE\nRAS did a practical course on biological samples collection from the Baikal\nseal organized by the \u00abBaikal Seal Aquarium\u00bb (Irkutsk). The laboratory tests\nhelp to define the state of population.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The study of the Baikal seal is a part of the Lake Baikal Foundation\u2019s project \u00abThe Baikal Seal Year\u00bb<\/a>. The project was initiated by the Foundation in April 2018 when the government was ready to resume the mass shooting of the Baikal seals without having enough scientific knowledge about the population. During the round table discussion<\/a> the experts revealed that there is critical deficiency of data on the seals\u2019 numbers, routes of migration and intrapopulation processes. In November 2018 on the 10th International Scientific \u0421onference \u00abMarine mammals of the Holarctic\u00bb the experts and the Foundation jointly presented the Program on research and preservation of the Baikal seal which has the forthcoming expedition as a key point.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In 2018 the project \u00abThe Baikal Seal Year\u00bb became a\nwinner of the Presidential Grants Foundation\u2019s contest and received support\nfrom the State.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The aim of the expedition is to track the migration routes and watch the seals\u2019 behavior in current environmental conditions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3464,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baikalfoundation.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3466\/"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/baikalfoundation.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/baikalfoundation.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post\/"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baikalfoundation.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1\/"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baikalfoundation.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments\/?post=3466"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/baikalfoundation.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3466\/revisions\/"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5187,"href":"https:\/\/baikalfoundation.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3466\/revisions\/5187\/"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baikalfoundation.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3464\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baikalfoundation.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/?parent=3466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baikalfoundation.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/?post=3466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baikalfoundation.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/?post=3466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}